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Isn't this cute? It just makes me smile. I think everyone needs a little cupid in their life, and you can have one like this!  It was created by Heidi at My Paper Crane and you can download it from Danielle Thompson's Blog.  There are instructions and a downloadable pdf.  I'm off to make some now . . .

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Here's a little early Valentine's Day Present for you. It's a little banner I made last year, but I updated it and made the letters into heart shapes . . . so much cuter right?  All you have to do is download the pdf file, print them out - I recommend card stock - cut the heart shapes out and hang them up! So simple and easy to do!  The pdf file has a total of 3 8-1/2" x 11" pages that you will need to print.  To hang them, you can punch holes in them and thread them onto a ribbon or string. You can clip them to a ribbon ( I used clothespins for mine - but paperclips would work too!) or you could even just tape them up!  There's plenty of possibilities for Valentine decorating!  You could hang them in your office cubicle, across your honey's mirror, above your kids bed, or even string a set of lights up and clip the hearts to the lights for even more romance!

Click on the image below to download the file and remember, however you use them - have fun - and I hope you have a lovely Saint Valentine's Day!

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Over at Designs in Digital, they host challenges that anyone can participate in - there's color challenges, word art challenges, template challenges - all kinds - and they are so much fun, I encourage you to go check it out.  This month they are having a "Hybrid Challenge" - which combines using digital art to create something in the "real" world - and this month's challenge is to create  little "Treat" or "Goody" Bags from envelopes! It's so simple and cute!

Basically you create a design and print it on a #10 business sized envelope. Then you cut the envelope in half and -viola! You have two little treat bags.  This is the design I made using the Sugar Moon Kit, Don't Look Under the Bed (which is 30% off this weekend, incidentally) and the spider and bat were created by Missy's Bits.  Then I sealed the envelope before printing it.   The entire set of instructions can be found HERE, the challenge was designed by one of the Designs in Digital Creative Team Members, "rschwetz".

Here's how they came out after printing:

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You know when you're in bed and you roll over to check the time, only to discover that you've woken up fifteen minutes before your alarm is set to go off, and you frantically try to force yourself back to sleep, and the harder you try to sleep the more you wake up, so when the alarm goes off, you're already in a grumpy mood about being cheated out of those fifteen minutes of sleep . . . yeah, that sucks.

That's how this part of summer feels to me - I can see the end of summer - school starting, routines beginning again and so I feel all frantic to enjoy the summer as much as possible before it slips away.

How's your summer going?  I've discovered that I have a sensitivity to wheat and gluten products, and the nutritionist I went to also recommended that I have a dairy free diet as well. So I've been eating gluten and dairy free for about a week. Wow.  You never know how many things have wheat in them before you can't eat it! Thank goodness we live in a time when Celiac's Disease is more known and there are lots of products and substitutes to cook with and eat.  It's really been a challenge, I'm not going to lie to you. I will miss wheat products, but more than the wheat, I think I miss dairy! Cheese, cream cheese, cottage cheese, sour cream . . . sigh. Oh, and what about my childhood favorite - Tuna noodle casserole . . . wow I just realized that's off limits. I wonder if there's such a thing as dairy free cheese that you could make mac and cheese from?

I have noticed that I am starting to feel better. At first I think I was going through a detox and just felt like crap for a couple of days, but luckily those symptoms are passing. So, I'm not complaining (although I do have a tendency to whine a bit about it!) I'm ready for this new food chapter. Gabby and David are eating the same diet as me, David less than Gabby, but he's still doing good - he's having a hard time giving up croutons on his salad!  I've suggested nuts, but you know it's just not the same!

I'm also supposed to be keeping a gratitude journal - which I think is a really good idea.  It does help turn your thoughts from feeling sorry for yourself!

Here's a little card I made to remind myself, but maybe you want one to print out and tape on your mirror, if so, just right click to open up the larger file to save and print.

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Today is a grey and blustery day where I live. The winds have been howling and the trees are quivering in fear. Leaves are whirling and skittering madly - it feels like Halloween is nearing! Today, I am posting a dancing skeleton halloween decoration that came out of a 1970 children's magazine (Jack and Jill). If you click on each of the images you can download a pdf of each page. As the instructions say, print them out on cardstock, punch holes where indicated and attach all the body parts with brass brads or tabs so that the joints move and you can position your skeleton any way you like!  While you are doing this you must sing,

"Dem bones, Dem bones, Dem dry bones!
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To reward my faithful readers (Hi Sandra!) for putting up with my erratic posting, I'm posting some Halloween Invitations that I designed. You should be able to click on them and download them as PDFs. Once opened you can click on the text and fill out the invitation with your own information. Please be patient they might take a few minutes to download.

After you've filled out all the important information,  send them to your printer and print on cardstock. The invitations are 4" x 6" and would fit into a standard invitation size envelope, or better yet, just address the back and mail them as postcards - save some paper! (double check your postage costs for this size postcard) Even better, save yourself some postage and hand deliver them! [More]

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